Tuesday, March 31, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Adaptive Studios, which recently rebooted HBO's Project Greenlight with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, has signed an overall deal with actress-writer-blogger Amy Main to develop and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AM[SHARE]If you’re not on commission or the bonus track at Bertelsmann’s toddling Penguin Random House megapublisher, there’ll be a nice tip for you come April 17: An extra $750 in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:05AM[SHARE]Lionsgate said Tuesday morning it will partner with Dubai Parks and Resorts to bring The Hunger Games to Motiongate Dubai, the Hollywood-themed park slated to open in Dubai in October 2016. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:34AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Twelve shows were in previews last week and one departed on a high note: Roundabout Theatre Company’s revived revival (so glad IÂ won’t have to type that anymore, but stillR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PM[SHARE]Skiing, snorkeling, snarking and sautéing fill out the Bravo menu, the NBCU arm announced at today’s upfront presentation in Manhattan. Here’s the official announcement:
NEW YOR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Esquire Network and Oxygen Media announced their new lineups at today’s NBCU upfronts in Manhattan. The rollout includes Comedians Of L.A. (working title) and Living With Funny, a join…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Fox’s specialty arm acquired worldwide rights minus France and other French-speaking territories, according to a statement from Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AM[SHARE]UPDATES with more information:
Comedy Central made it official this morning, leaking to the New York Times its planned Monday announcement that the young South African comic will take over t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2015
Gene Saks, an actor-turned-director whose long kinship with Neil Simon led to the film versions of two of the most successful comedies of their time, Barefoot in The Park and The Odd Couple,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:23PM[SHARE]Dwayne Johnson eased on through the Saturday Night Live live sketches; the funniest had him in a WWF promo (B) and later paired him with Cecily Strong’s twit Brit as his date (A+), cra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38AM[SHARE]Last night’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-hosted Saturday Night Live wasn’t what you’d call intellectually brilliant. It was merely flat-out funny, as the Furious …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
Tonight’s the night Broadway gets a look at Fun Home, possibly the first Tony-eligible musical based on a graphic memoir, and certainly one of the most beautiful new shows we’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PM[SHARE]The genius of Harvey Weinstein’s New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall is that he and his sly collaborators — Diane Paulus (Pippin), Randy Weiner (Queen Of T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PM[SHARE]The all-time Tony-wining champ (21) will direct The Band’s Visit for off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company next spring. It’s based on Eran Kolirin’s award-winning 2…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
Larry David’s final performance in his play will be on June 7, which is when the freshman playwriting effort was slated to shutter. Instead, the run has been extended six weeks, with h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:10PM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard, a fevered friend of free expression and foe of bad writing, will receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for his “extraordinary career as a dramatist and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Stritch, the Broadway diva who played Alec Baldwin’s mom on 30 Rock and was the memorably frank subject of the docu Shoot Me, will get the bio treatment from New York Times fa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: The famed safe-house for developing theater writers will honor multiple Tony Award nominee (and winner for Kiss Me, Kate) and Actors Fund board chair Brian Stokes Mitchell with it…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:46AM[SHARE]Danny Schechter, an unabashed advocacy journalist and media critic who moved in and out of mainstream television and wore his legend as “Danny Schechter, the News Dissector” like…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:57AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
Pray for the puppet. In an up week that saw eight new shows previewing on Broadway, several looked like early contenders for the pre-Tony homestretch, while others already bore signs of a co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:54PM[SHARE]Comedian and philanthropist Jerry Lewis will receive the National Association of Broadcasters’ Distinguished Service Award at next month’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. Lewis is s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM[SHARE]Possibly marking the end of Stephen Sondheim‘s 80th-birthday celebrations comes word of the Royal Albert Hall’s April 28 Follies: In Concert honoring the composer-lyricist’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The British thesp currently appearing as U.S. Secretary Of State in Netflix’ House Of Cards and alumna of 24, will play the wife of the prolific French sci-fi writer in Jule…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
The high-profile union actors have lent their support to a rally and march slated for Monday afternoon to protest a plan by Actors’ Equity that would force L.A.’s 99-seat theater…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
I think Elisabeth Moss was born to play Heidi Holland on Broadway. She couldn't possibly have had better preparation than her role as Peggy Olson, the Mad Men character who entered the 1960s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Dough-Re-Mi: Mary Martin’s 1960 Tony Award for The Sound of Music sold at auction today for $35,000. It was part of a trove of entertainment-related memorabilia sold b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PM[SHARE]The Mazda hawking, magic debunking Las Vegas regulars will play a six-week engagement at Broadway’s Nederlander-operated Marquis Theatre, beginning July 7 and wrapping August 16. The r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PM[SHARE]Building on the ever-expanding incursion of rap music into Broadway, hip-hop pioneer, entrepreneur and Tony Award-winning producer Simmons is developing a new musical that will be driven …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
With the sold-out run of Constellations starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson having just closed at its Broadway mainstage, the nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club says it’s re-uppi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PM[SHARE]Addressing speculation last night about his post-Daily Show plans, Jon Stewart dismissed various scenarios (including “modeling” and rock-stardom) before unveiling the first segm…
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